We all recognize that our democracies find it difficult to resist the automation of technological civilizations as well as industrial and consumer societies. Ultimately, within these, we finally are being manipulated so much more subtle and refined than we were by the methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

We do not draw benefit because we also are victims of the same automation and are often unable to avoid falling into artifice or exceed our concerns about our personal survival to become responsible individuals who truly contribute to the creation of a sustainable and peaceful world – the creation of the collective destiny.

Our world is fully made up of systems, living or non-living, nested and in interaction. The society and the economy are two major systems which control is ensured by the use of cybernetics (the science of systems control). By definition, a balanced cybernetic system has the property of self-regulation. A trend in one way automatically creates the conditions for the reverse trend. Such systems demonstrate high stability in time. However, we note that all humanity has a general inability to control the situation. In sum, our systems are not balanced. Currently we misuse of cybernetics.

It is for this reason that modern society seems to lose more and more the spirit of community, natural empathy, affection between human beings and respect for the environment. It is now necessary to find a way to overcome all these dangers coming from individualism.

We should stop seeing globalization as a negative factor leading to the disappearance of the primacy of states and the domination of the markets. We all know that the time of states’ domination was marked by terrible wars and totalitarianism. Regarding the domination of markets, it is simply the consequence of individualization too implanted in our societies. Globalization simply has the face that we attribute to it by our collective actions.

However, increasingly, people are calling for a strengthening of the global capacity to regulate markets and international relations. Today, the international relations are always supposed to relate to the interests of certain states rather than ethical standards and positive and rational exchanges. So people are claiming another globalization – an alternative globalization – a different one – globalization with a human face.

The concept of global governance system must not refer to a world state, as some people imagine or fear, but at a orderly system (balanced cybernetic system) in which the states are increasingly guided by international ethical rules. These rules should not only be based on an agreement between states but also on a massive public support generated by a global civil society.

It is therefore necessary to establish a regulation. But are international regulations possible without an international state? Well, yes; it would be based on a new kind of social agreement with its system of values. This social agreement and its system of values would be based on a vision of the notions of values and reason printed in the human consciousness. This concept of social agreement would be based on the consent of individuals and would commit them.

A local civil society would be a participatory process, located on territory, through which individuals are in phase with each other and with the centers of economic and political authorities (which include institutions and companies). It would be a self-organizing activity designed for specific purposes related to progressive social and human values.

By civil society, we always understand autonomy and self-organization. But this is not to forget communication and transparency, two major components of a balanced cybernetic system. In the ideal territorial civil society, we logically see a slight withdrawal of the state in his usual roles and above all a creation of civic engagement islands working in symbiosis with the state (act and move in the same direction). These perfectly organized islands are generated by local dynamics of progress. The challenge is to create an ethics-based community, that is to say, a community based on morality, sharing and respect. All societies of the world (Western and non-Western societies) largely have the potential to experience something similar. For what reason? Simply because all cultures have traditions of human dignity, tolerance, use of reason and public deliberation.

If the territorial civil society is related to the territory, the global civil society is related to the concept of positive interdependence. Thus, a global civil society can without any problem, and should necessarily exist in the absence of an alias world state or a super institution with great power. The risk of misuse of this power is too big. However, we should be able to understand this interdependence and, as well, should be able to make a beneficial use of it. The state of our societies shows us that this is not the case yet.

In addition, no movement can reflect the aspirations of people around the world. This is why many say that the idea of a global civil society is a mistake because it is to represent a world opinion and substitute the functioning of representative democracy at national level.

Also, how global civil society can convince states to adopt a multilateral alternative framework to address critical issues? Well, there is simply no alternative but to try to establish a set of global rules based on consent and ethics.

The only way to achieve the consent of the mass (macro level) is to focus only on the micro level – by a real-time experiment made by the stakeholders in each territory of the world.

The multiple civic implications at the territorial level (also called singular territorial dynamics) fit together like a giant puzzle with an ingenious implementation mechanism using a powerful catalyst (Big Smart Data of EL4DEVconcept) and a multidisciplinary activity of conceptualization. The whole will form a highly scalable and adaptable modular structure. Then, from this, the real global civil society will be born – in its prototype form. It will be born in a way that no one expects.

The rules of exchanges and global management of world affairs would ultimately be defined within the social agreement, in a highly participatory way and by the mass consent. It’s the only solution to form this global civil society so imagined and described as an utopia. In short, the social agreement will only be made by continually increasing civic involvement of stakeholders in each country around the world. The connection between the territories will be possible by the similarities encountered in civil implications. These similarities experienced by different peoples will be the foundations of the social agreement. The result of the whole is greater than the sum of all components set (a principle of cybernetics).

The social agreement will never be imposed on people; neither its values. It will exist thanks to the deep and shared desire of a heterogeneous international population looking to evolve into a sustainable lifestyle more respectful of people and the environment. It will be born from a participatory conceptualisation by all stakeholders of the world. It will be related to the concept of positive interdependence and new humanism. The civil society will be evolving from its primary form (the prototype form) to several increasingly sophisticate forms but whose fundamentals remain the same. The engines of this positive evolution are conductive education, thought and subtlety of mind and the intelligence of the heart.

Everybody knows that an amazing amount of data is continuously collected since our beginning of the digital age. Now the question is how we can harness all this information to help meet the challenges facing our societies in this century, while particularly addressing concerns about the ethical issues this raises. Across the globe companies, organizations and institution are hardly competing to exploit the potential of this Big Data. Everywhere, companies are developing methods for mining and modeling these increasing amounts of data becoming available about people.

If you watch or listen to what is happening around you, you will understand that people are too much excited about the potential of big data because of the prospect of working on large amounts of previously unreachable user data in any field, mainly for business purpose and sometimes for much more enigmatic reasons.

What about education benefits? Big Data in education is a more and more hot topic. People are looking its potential for reform, others are concerned about privacy, and some don’t see why spending money for it. For sure, Big Data is deeply revolutionising education. Why? Just because we all know that education is more and more occurring online or in educational software, resulting in an explosion of data that can be used to improve educational effectiveness. So, Big Data should really help to deliver an education system that enables to realise the full potential of people.

Some people say Big Data can unlock the door to a more personalised learning experience which will motivate young people to study and better equip them for life beyond the classroom. With Big Data, teachers can analyse students and their work patterns in order to pinpoint where teaching can be personalized and optimized. Big Data can capture usage data and social signals in order to develop user profiles and enable teachers to deliver personalised learning. So, Big Data will drive to data-driven classrooms, the concept of digitally collecting and analyzing students’ work, tracking and reporting performance.

But people also say this could help to ensure countries have workforces with the skills required to succeed in today’s highly competitive globalised economy. But why only in order to compete economically? Why this huge opportunity would it only be for schools? Why only for young people? This big data could it not be exploited to continuously train individuals able to better understand their environment and the human – individuals who can play a positive role in society? We must go beyond the simple acquisition of knowledge.

In our lives today, algorithms are analyzing our behaviour (both on and offline and all the time). They shape what we do in the moment, and they often steer us toward what we do next. But where is the ethics in that?

A Big Data dedicated to education would have problems to overcome with the classic approach people have.

This requires concerted action by all those involved (from policy-makers and educators, to researchers, students and the private sector) working together closely to find effective solutions to unlock such enormous potential and work on ethical issues. Collaboration, communication and transparency are essential between all stakeholders.

But Big Data is too big to analyse using conventional techniques or using relational database management. Most current definitions of Big Data emphasise volume, velocity (real-time information), and variety. Data of this kind requires many specialists processing platforms to analyze it.

It seems that, no country in the world will be able to capitalise fully on this potential without taking action to address a wide range of issues. Skills must be acquired to harness the power of big data; technologies and infrastructure developed to collect, store, share and analyse it; and policies agreed to address concerns surrounding privacy and security, and the potentially dehumanising impact of big data on education. Both the legal and ethical questions posed by the use of big data are still not answered.

The method and objectives of EL4DEV are different. In this sense, EL4DEV offers an alternative approach of Big Data.

EL4DEV is a resourceful and adaptable framework for self-learning which knowledge is provided by the real-time experience of each of us, all over the world. For many people it may sounds like utopia. The role of EL4DEV is to initiate an intelligent, collective and collaborative process of investigation that is an exchange between all individuals, rather than simple speeches or a mere transmission of knowledge.

We are in a different approach of education. The sum of knowledge acquired from day-to-day experiences anywhere in the planet is immediately modeled thanks to algorithms and available to all the people. So your own experience serves the collective. People immediately implement this knowledge within the society to rewrite the existing socio-economic and behavioural models and meet the various local issues. The system also analyses all the consequences of interaction of people and the actions performed. Thus, it is able to establish predictive scenarios based on the actions performed in real time.

So, here is the teaching method and content EL4DEV provides. This teaching is accessible to everybody, at any age, in any country and has pretensions to an intelligent and ethical management of world affairs as well as better relations between individuals. EL4DEV is a powerful process of analysing, modelling and sharing the collective experience in order to raise awareness and motivate any people. EL4DEV is a powerful process of bringing back dignity to every individual so as to change him in agent of positive change.

Everyone aspires to play a positive role in society. With EL4DEV, your behaviour can finally help change the world. These actions are within the reach of any individual on the planet regardless of its socio-cultural environment, education background and gender. That is why we talk here of Big Data.

EL4DEV meets the challenges on the possible dehumanisation of education and addresses concerns surrounding privacy of data. Data of this kind do not require other processing platforms to analyze it. This huge opportunity of Big Data is not only for schools and students since EL4DEV is an open learning framework. This big data is aimed to be exploited continuously only to train individuals able to better understand their environment and the human. Here, we talk about ethical Big Data.

We all know that experience is the fundamental process in the evolution of individuals. In fact, it should be seen as the real germ of intelligence because there is no intelligence without research and experience is a process comparable to that of scientific research. It is a series of steps that teaches that to achieve what we want we must comply with certain requirements, acquire some knowledge, regardless of the circumstances and tender our efforts in the desired direction.

Then experience is an active process of acquiring various data. These acquisitions consist of an inner progress of our being, our personality, our behaviour in society and in the natural environment, our possibilities of reaction, our adjustment to various circumstances and our action to the surrounding world. Thus experience has two aspects: it involves testing but also feeling. It is the key that makes understanding the nature of reality.

Therefore EL4DEV education has experience as operating concept. This is a mutual interdependence process between the individual and his environment (physical and social). With a progressive enrichment of the experience, the main aim of this course is to train individuals capable of understanding their environment and humans. However, individuals are not educated with concepts and abstract knowledge, but are prepared to play a real positive role.

EL4DEV education is essentially a process of sharing real-time experience. A good society is a society in which there is much experience shared by all its members. The experience of each individual feeds the collective experience as a tributary feeds a river. Thus, this education has pretensions to an intelligent and ethical management of world affairs and relations between individuals. This perfect management is exclusively based on moral principles and is achieved through a philosophical and reflective analysis of experiences of everybody.

All individuals are conscious of being responsible for their own decisions and their lives. This is why no one can admit situations where he feels that others impose on him their will. The EL4DEV program allows extending the scope of useful knowledge by modeling the sum of real time experiences and analysis of the consequences of human interaction throughout the global civil society.

The role of EL4DEV is to initiate an intelligent, collective and collaborative process of investigation that is an exchange between all individuals, rather than simple speeches or a mere transmission of knowledge. The first action of EL4DEV is to help people become aware of their need to learn. Thus, they discover the gap between their current conditions than they actually wish to achieve. This allows them to set personal and lofty goals then develop their own action plans. In this process, they are supported by others.

Learning mode used is focused on reality, so the EL4DEV pedagogy is systematically designed around real situations, not just subjects / themes. All individuals are willing to continually learn whether the knowledge they seek allows them to better analyze, understand, interpret and deal with real situations.They better assimilate all the body of knowledge, positive values and attitudes if they are implemented daily.

Therefore, we all understand that no one can do without the experience. The construction of the intellectual and moral personality can only be achieved by going beyond research and effort to solve the problems in our society. There is no real education as an experiential, continuous and progressive education that fits all of us.

We all know that our global civil society today needs to be profoundly rethought and redirected through the involvement of all. It must allow the fusion of consciousness and knowledge and give up his current utilitarian appearance. All countries of the world must be part of the solution. The new school (the model that should be applied in the 21st century) is designed to bring people to this result. It is humanistic and holistic (that is to say that learning is organized around real issues and integrated projects specifically initiated with the aim of teaching. It combines « thematic learning », « discovery learning » and « project method »).

The new school must be in the form of a resourceful and adaptable framework for self-learning which knowledge is provided by the real-time experience of each of us, all over the world.

This is that new kind of school open and accessible to everyone, at any age, largely making use of information technologies and based on a secular spirituality that is the atypical EL4DEV program.

EL4DEV is a systembased on moralitybut does not impose standards to people. The EL4DEV process welcomes first people who identify with the values advocated. However, through its transformative learning process, EL4DEV brings everyone to understand these values through their own experiments. People are aware of being responsible for their own decisions and they are not limited by the moral standards of the system. In the society we live in, people already are aware of that they could play a very positive role in improving their environments. Paradoxically, few of them bother to do so maybe because of perplexity on the results of these initiatives.

So, EL4DEV is a collective enterprise that heavily uses information technology to initiate a mass stimulus but that is not limited to people interacting through computers otherwise it would be difficult to address all humanity. So the role of EL4DEV is to train a maximum number of people in a joint action for progress by taking the path to ethics enlightenment.

It is true that if a small group wishes to make changes, aims to create a dynamic of progress, its impact on the world body will have no lasting effect since its inertia is not sufficient to move it. Its dynamic is too low. It is almost impossible to change the global mass because the weight of bad habits and ways of being and thinking that it generates is too large and eventually completely drown any minor attempt … Unless we operate several small independent and perfectly targeted changes (or more precisely several dynamic).

Thanks to an ingenious system making perfect use of cybernetics (systems science), the effects accumulated by these small changes made in various places in the world end up creating a sufficiently powerful wave that travels fast enough to reverse the overall trend. This is where the ingenuity operates. To initiate and sustain these dynamics, we have to target that makes up the common point between all men and women, that is to say that at the bottom of them they all aspire to find in our humanity. These territorial dynamics must imperatively fit to the different socio-economic environments. This means that they must take into account the economic, social, anthropological, cultural and spiritual. They need to help meeting local and not global issues.

As stated by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, man is naturally good but it is society that corrupts him, so let’s work to greatly improve the society by the joint and benevolent action of men everywhere.

EL4DEV is not an NGO; so its projects are different, especially in process management, results and sustainability. The EL4DEV development projects are pilot projects that aim, in the overall process, to stimulate some dynamic of progress at the micro level, that is to say, on a small territory, through coercion and synergy of multiple stakeholders. They respond to real needs related to local issues and take into account all socio-economic, anthropological and cultural characteristics within each territory.

They are systematically based on the six strategic pillars of the philosophy of the EL4DEV program:

– True Innovation

– High added value and sustainability

– Empowering individuals

– Profit for the regions and countries

– Massive and participatory alternative education as the highest goal

– Transparency and performances real-time measurement

Developed processes are systematically innovative or tend to rewrite the traditional processes by adding additional links. They use the dynamic of masses cooperation that are possible by ongoing interactions of many stakeholders far exceeding the environments of the projects. They introduce testing, efficiency measuring and oriented mass communication means. This control is dynamic and is in real time.

Then projects are highly interactive due to their environments changeable at will (we are talking about non-permanent environments, such as in an online massively multiplayer game). This is of course supported by the information technologies that are inseparable from the operational and educational performances aimed and the required full transparency.

These processes only use the projects as massively scalable environments to educate all socio-economic stakeholders around the territories where projects are conducted and beyond through transnational synergies.

In the end, these processes are used as franchises since their models can easily be adapted to other territories of the world if these ones contain similar socioeconomic characteristics. They are perfectly governed by strict rules to meet many criteria of quality and transparency. Franchisees are fully supported (financially and operationally) by EL4DEV group to conduct these beneficial projects in their territories.

Indicators to check the achievement of objectives in each project:

Quantification and spatial representation of the dynamic of progress brought by socio-economic stakeholders in the environment, quantification of the stakeholders involved in the process and transparency of their roles throughout the various stages; Finally, reactions and behavioural changes of the stakeholders directly involved or not in the various steps (the project represents the means used and the evolving environment to bring a highly interactive learning).

The source of verification in each project:

Through an online software designed for this purpose, data modeling of the interactions and synergies created, the value added in real time, the satisfaction felt in the co-creator roles (static and dynamic mapping + representative diagrams and tables)

EL4DEV is an atypical startup aimed to teach moral values to all individuals in order to create, expand or consolidate the collective in society. Therefore, the EL4DEV program is an experimental and innovative learning environment. This one is transformative and continuously generates knowledge at many levels. The acquired knowledge is the collective awareness of the world, issues beyond our persons, our interdependence and the importance of « living together ». EL4DEV generates wisdom since the program automatically requires thought, reasoning, creativity and reflexivity in order to lead each individual in the world to become independent and responsible.Pedagogy is conductive because EL4DEV focuses on the development of a sense of initiative in each individual. http://el4dev.com/

A stimulating and creative theme park to teach moral values to people to create, expand or consolidate the collective society. The only way to convince people is to teach them by experience, by internalizing them. People must be in a position to experiment continuously, otherwise this instruction will absolutely devoid of content and be without continuity.

We should all boost our cerebral activity, stimulate our memory. We must learn, study, because if we do not use the open space and the capacity of our brain, others may find ways to use them in our place (Eng).

EL4DEV does not address his audience as children in infancy. It is intended for a responsible and voluntary audience able to reason.
EL4DEV is a humanist program that appeals more to your thinking than your emotional.
EL4DEV fights against the spread of collective inattention.
EL4DEV encourages individuals to seek to know more about themselves in order to act in the best within the society.
EL4DEV is highly reflexive and altruistic then denounces the creation of problems designed only to provide solutions nourishing the personal interests of some individuals.
EL4DEV aims to out all individuals from ignorance and confusion.